Wednesday Night Interval Training
Wednesday nights are for more structured training planned by one of the experienced club leaders. Sessions are varied with short intervals to help us get faster, hills to help us get stronger, longer intervals to build speed endurance and even the odd boot-camp.
All sessions are mixed ability. We make use of the local parks in the summer months and the paths and hills on both sides of the Tyne, and provide a varied programme so that there should be something for everybody. The plans below are examples – leaders do vary them based on weather, location or just for a change! (Click on name for a detailed plan).
Hill Training
Town Moor Hills
Leazes Hills
Leazes Park Hills and Sprints
Generic Hill Training
Sprint Intervals
200 Metre Sprints
400m intervals
Let’s Count Lampposts (Fartlek)
Round and Round the Lake We Go
Leazes Park Intervals
Pyramid Sessions
Endurance & Mixed Sessions
800m Repeats
Cats, Dogs & Nuns
The Agony and the BBC
Endurance Intervals
A bit of fun
Nina’s Christmas Cracker
Runners’ Bootcamps
We don’t usually do these on Wednesdays anymore, but they are exercises that you may want to do yourself (or give you good ideas for strength and conditioning training).
Runners Bootcamp
Bootcamp (Tabata Style)
Another Runners Bootcamp
Anywhere Bootcamp 1
Lockdown Bootcamp No. 2
Sessions that we did from our old base
The following sessions are not done very often as the locations used are a bit too far from the Newcastle University Sports Centre. However they are still useful for individuals to try, or for ideas to use at other venues.
Pyramid of Bridges
Baltic Mile
Jesmond Dene With a Happy Ending
The Legendary Abutment (Actual or Covid-19 version)
Gateshead Hills – Riverside Park
Gateshead Hills – Baltic Version
